Bibliography: Tibullus | Ancient World Open Bibliographies.

Bibliography: Lactantius | Ancient World Open Bibliographies.

Sixty Minutes asks some folks what they would save if they could only save one thing from the Vatican Library if it caught fire … the second person is Christopher Celenza, who is the current director of the American Academy in Rome:

… I think most Classicists would picture themselves in that scene from In the Name of the Rose:

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ante diem xvii kalendas maias

• ludi Cereri continue (day 4)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C.
• Fordicidia — an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus
• 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning)
• 69 A.D. — the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho
• 251 A.D. — Martyrdom of Maximus and Olympiades in Persia